Backend Engineer (AI coding)

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About The Company

About The Role

Backend Engineer

Your Responsibilities

• Build and scale backend services and APIs powering the core product
• Design systems that handle real-time processing and high-throughput workloads
• Improve performance, reliability, and scalability of the platform
• Work on data flows, async processing, and system integrations
• Contribute to infrastructure and deployment pipelines
• Use AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) to accelerate development and iteration
• Collaborate closely with engineers and founders on architecture and technical decisions

What You Bring

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong experience building and shipping production systems
• Proficiency in backend development (language-agnostic mindset; Node.js, Python, Go, etc.)
• Experience with APIs, distributed systems, and scalable architectures
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or similar)
• Comfort working in an AI-assisted coding workflow (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, etc.)
• Solid understanding of system design, performance, and reliability
• Ability to work autonomously in a small, fast-moving team
• Nice to Have
• Experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures
• Familiarity with media processing, automation, or bot systems
• Experience with message queues, caching, and async workflows
• Exposure to low-level performance optimization or systems programming
• Startup or early-stage experience

Why Join

• Early-stage team with strong ownership and impact
• Opportunity to build and scale core backend systems from early days
• Work in a fast-moving, engineering-first environment
• Modern stack and AI-native development workflows
• Fully remote and flexible setup
• ***Pragmatike is committed to a fair, transparent, and inclusive recruitment process.**
• We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.*
• *In accordance with GDPR, your personal data will be processed lawfully, fairly, and securely, and used solely for recruitment purposes, including sharing it with our client(s) for employment consideration.
• You may request access, correction, or deletion of your data at any time.
• We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of your information throughout the recruitment process.*